258cib - 2:00 am on May 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

Does anyone here think of Google as a "Do-Gooder Company"? I look at Google as the being to the Internet what Microsoft is to the home computer. Sergey Brin and Larry Page have about as much commitment to the public interest, and probably less, than does Bill Gates. Not that I necessarily consider it surprising that "greed is GOOD" is the mantra at the Googleplex. After all, they are a for profit business.

Count me, for one, as a Google fan. Integrity--doing what you say you are going to do--is tough, especially on the scale which G operates. Yet, they have come close to pulling it off. Are their results always perfect? No. But, they are the best. And they have yet to the satisfied with their success. And they have made most everyone who has done business with them on the web either richer, or at least not poorer. That's do-gooder enough for me.